Why cantankerous old bloggers need editors

[statrat]

Hope this isn't a DB.
Furman Bisher of the AJC wonders why the hell MLB is allowed to play baseball in Japan when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor:
http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2008/03/25/sayonara_baseba.html
The comments are your typical of the uninformed, the racists, and the whiners.
However, one makes a good point: Why did the NFL play a game in England? The English did wage war on our country twice.

 

[21]

That was really....strange.

 

[friend of a friend]

Get the hell off my lawn!

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

I was waiting for Bisher to note that the Braves should never again play against "Those damn Yankee swine who burned our fair city to the ground just last year!!!"

 

[zebracoy]

How that comment can be expressed just baffles me.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

I laughed out loud more than once. Honest.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

This cracked me up:

World Series games start about my bedtime.

 

[mike311gd]

By Max

March 26, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Money can change any habit. This spring the Pirates and Braves will open the season, not in Milwaukee. Guess where? Atlanta. That Atlanta, the guys who tried to keep slavery and tear this country apart. Some people don’t like you to bring that up, trade with the south is so hot. But I’ve got a long memory.

Priceless.

 

[statrat]

"Not only that, but the Red Sox pitcher is Daisuke Matsuzaka, who didn’t grow up in Wampole."

And I'm assuming this means it's a travesty that we let foreign athletes play "our" game.

 

[Beaker]

"Not only that, but the Red Sox pitcher is Daisuke Matsuzaka, who didn’t grow up in Wampole."

And I'm assuming this means it's a travesty that we let foreign athletes play "our" game.

If by "Wampole," he was trying to reference Walpole, MA, he's even more full of fail.

 

[statrat]

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/03/cancel-baseball-cancel-sports-cancel.html

Fire Joe Morgan does their thing with it.

 

[friend of a friend]

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/03/cancel-baseball-cancel-sports-cancel.html

Fire Joe Morgan does their thing with it.

Good stuff, as usual

 

[slappy4428]

I really want to ask if he was around for the 1969 Red Stockings opener...

Thanks for playing Furman...

 

[Pencil Dick]

Wasn't it Bisher who once asked a Japanese golfer who was near the lead at The Masters in the '70s - I believe it was Tommy Nakajima, but that might not be correct - "Where were you on Dec. 7, 1941?"

It's called retirement, Furman. Look into it.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

I really want to ask if he was around for the 1969 Red Stockings opener...

Thanks for playing Furman...

he may have been... don drysdale beat gary nolan at crosley field

but maybe not, the reds came to atlanta for the next series

 

[playthrough]

Wow. Just wow.

I will share some anger over my beloved Reds not getting the true opening day anymore. Traditions are only traditions to MLB when it can make money, and a lowly afternoon season opener in a small market ain't it.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And I watched the game on a Sony. Take that, Furman Bisher!!

The greatest part of that is that he actually adds, ",see" to the end of his first paragraph.

 

[Ace]

I give Furman credit for reaching 98 before the Alzheimer's kicked in.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I read today in the print version of the AJC that Furman suggest the new Gwinnett minor league team be named the Crackers. A nod to the minor league that played in Atlanta, but not exactly fitting the politically correct mode of this day and age.

Didn't see his column online, though.

 

[Ace]

I read today in the print version of the AJC that Furman suggest the new Gwinnett minor league team be named the Crackers. A nod to the minor league that played in Atlanta, but not exactly fitting the politically correct mode of this day and age.

Didn't see his column online, though.

Second choice would be the Battlin' Jim Crows.